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...Emporia, Kans. to referee a wrestling match, Jack Dempsey, pausing in his steak dinner, joined a curbside crowd and watched a three-man slugfest. Finally, someone called the cops and the scrappers called it a draw. Said Jack: "Best darn fight I've seen in years...
Wrote Mrs. Trierweiler: "I also broke my ankle skiing last April-the left one, too. And I am still in bed-six months! And I also have four children. And I am also writing a novel! I'm typing the darn thing for the third time. Someone told me to leave out the sex, so that I did. Another told me to remove the religion, so I did that, too. Now all that is left is love and the Lake of Thun...
Attention to Detail. In Japan, Marine Lieut. James H. Orr took his old darned uniform to a tailor, asked to have another made exactly like it, returned later to find the new uniform, complete with darn...
...finally got it open. Ike stepped to the door and was just reaching down to shake an upstretched hand as the engineer started up, leaving half the reporters and photographers behind. A trainman flagged down the train half a block away. Said Ike, grinning ruefully: "I darn near fell out the door...
After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare...